If dedication to growing this area, plus a winning personality that draws people to her, are factors in whether Emily Quinn Johns is successful with her new post as chamber of commerce president and CEO -- she’s in the right place.

The 34-year-old is still learning the area, she says, but every day brings something that piques her interest. Johns believes the key to growth is community cooperation, “and Barnesville seems to have a lot of that.” She will be meeting regularly with small downtown businesses and larger companies here to find out what the chamber can do to help them.
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Having worked as a courtroom illustrator for NBC News, artist Eleanor Dixon Stecker of Barnesville spent many years capturing the emotional headlines that surface at high-profile trials like the White Water Hearings, Paula Jones, Wayne Williams and other cases we have all followed.
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